A Stuart Woods book is pretty much guaranteed to be fun, especially when it stars the ridiculously rich, raucously randy Stone Barrington, most everybody's favorite ex-cop-turned-lawyer-turned-sleuth. But it's the cast of familiar characters that make a Woods tome even more entertaining, from Dino to Teddy to Katherine and Will Lee and...well, the list expands rather regularly. In "Standup Guy" Stone becomes involved with an ex-con and a stash of old stolen money and the action takes off from there. Suffice it to say it's a fun ride with, as usual, a few subplots along the way. But "Standup," though not billed as such, is really a two-parter, continuing in "Carnal Curiosity," and you'll need to read the former before tackling the latter to understand the loose strings being gathered. (I'll be posting the "Carnal" review as a reference to look back at this one.) One of the most prolific mystery writers around (even giving James Patterson a run for his tons of money), Stuart Woods will deliver the goods. This is Stone Barrington #28. Stone gets a new client named John Fratelli. This man has "inherited" some money that was stolen in a robbery over 25 years ago. He needs some advice on how to proceed. Stone helps him out and ends up in a violent and deadly battle for the millions of dollars. He meets a woman, who unknown to him, wants the money too. His intuition was not working on this woman and pays for it dearly.I enjoyed this story. Stone really gets jammed up! But Dino comes to the rescue, by accident!
What do You think about Standup Guy (2014)?
If Robert B. Parker had written about lawyers, this is what it would look like.
—ani_87
Fun to read, no wisdom acquired. Who cares. Fun is good
—Esmeralda
listened to audio read very well by Tony Roberts.
—raven
